Both facilities are located in smaller communities and similar locales throughout the United States saw the biggest benefits from the eclipse, according to STR, a marketplace analysis firm. Most of the 139,000 hotel rooms in the path of totality were in non-urban locations, the firm said.

In related Eastern Cherokee news, the tribe opened a 53,000-square-foot entertainment center at the Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort last week. The UltraStar Multi-Tainment Center features a bowling alley with 24 lanes, an arcade, a restaurant and bar and an event stage.

“This place is out of this world,” elder and bowler Annie Owens told The Cherokee One Feather, the tribe's newspaper. “I didn’t expect it to be like this. I expected it to be just like a regular bowling alley, but when I walked in that door, I just about cried. This is awesome.”